Suvenir: Young Art Residency

Souvenir: Young Art Residency is a five-day intensive design studio for children aged 8-13, functioning as a creative laboratory.

Children are not participants in a leisure program, but young authors who work with the city as a material. Bratislava becomes a source of visual, historical and spatial impulses that children transform into their own design objects.

Type of program:

Day camp

• Beginning: 8:30 a.m. (contemporary_suvenir, Medená 19, Bratislava)
• Ending: 4:00 p.m. (contemporary_suvenir, Medená 19, Bratislava)

movement, flow, horizon, urban landscape

SNP Bridge (UFO) – height perspective, modern architecture, city surveillance

Bratislava Castle – history, identity and symbol of the city

Blavačik – urban mobility and narrative connection of the city

Excursions and entrances

They are a full-fledged part of design research:

• cruise Danube - perception of the city from the water level
• SNP Bridge (UFO) view - panorama of the modern city
• Bratislava Castle - historical and symbolic layer of the city
• tourist train ride Blaváčik - urban narrative route

Food and drink regime

The program price includes complete daily food and drink mode:

• after-lunch snack
• lunch
• a snack (fruit)
• drinking mode throughout the day

Children's performances - author's mini collection

Each child creates his own collection:

• textile object (designer T-shirt + cap)
• graphic artefact (magnet and postcard)
• urban visual remix (graphic collage)

Final exhibition

Curatorial installation of children's collections in the contemporary_souvenir space at Medena 19 in Bratislava. The exhibition will be connected with the opening on the last day of the camp and will last one week.

Children actively participate in the selection of works, their naming and installation.

Lecturer team

• Mgr. Art. Miriam Petranová, ArtD – visual artist and pedagogue
• Mgr. Art. Nina A. Šošková, ArtD – designer and artist, founder of contemporary_souvenir
• Lucia Švagerková – production and visual assistance, graphic finalization of outputs

Positioning

• Not: camp, babysitting, leisure activity
• We are: design research studio, urban laboratory for children

Dates - rotations

• Rotation 1: July 13 - 17, 2026
• Rotation 2: August 17 - 21, 2026

Capacity: 9 children per rotation

Price

• Early bird - €267 (up to June 15, 2026)
• Standard price – €287

The price includes the program, guidance, materials, entrance fees, excursions and meals.

Registration conditions

• registration by June 15, 2026 for a discounted price
• child must be health insured
• copy health card

Cancellation conditions

• up to 14 days before the start: 50% cancellation fee
• less than 14 days: no refund (possibility of substitute)

Registration

After registration, a binding application will be sent by e-mail.

Contact

• [email protected]
• +421 903 345 907